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Your Favourite Suppliers / Re: Online fabric shops new thread for 2024
« on: February 23, 2024, 19:17:44 PM »
Croft Mill - often have 'end of lines' from big manufacturers.  I've always had good quality and good service from them and found some unusual fabrics, reasonably priced.

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Sewing Machines / Re: Bills New Machine
« on: February 22, 2024, 14:53:35 PM »
Can you work wearing earplugs @Bill ?

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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: 2024 Jeans Sew Along
« on: February 22, 2024, 14:51:55 PM »
A very neat job @Ouryve .  I never do bartacks on jeans, just go backwards and forwards with the stitching s couple of times.  I have jeans in the farming drawer that I probably made 10 years ago and they get some pretty rough wear.  I've never had a joint / seam / stitching fail on any I have made.

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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: 2024 Jeans Sew Along
« on: February 21, 2024, 10:02:32 AM »
@Ouryve are you allergic to the metal button?  I have a metal allergy but I always have a t shirt tucked into jeans.  I even have issues with the hooks on bras even though there isn't direct skin contact.

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In the wardrobe / Re: Fabric advice
« on: February 20, 2024, 10:00:10 AM »
Cotton lawn isn't usually st all stiff.  I've used cotton lawn for a very similar pattern and it works just fine.

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Sewing Machines / Re: Bills New Machine
« on: February 16, 2024, 07:49:40 AM »
I think a lot depends on the density / weave of the fabric.
I am currently sewing a water repellent cotton, it is not a heavy fabric at all but a very tight weave and  ' coated' to make it water repellent.  I cannot get a pin through 2 layers of the fabric - it's not easy to put a pin in one layer.  My Pfaff is happy to plod through multiple layers of much thicker denim or canvas ( with care) but I don't think it would cope with the same number of layers of this fabric.  It did go over 2 flat felled seams but I used the handwheel to get the microtex needle through.

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Sewing Machines / Re: Bills New Machine
« on: February 14, 2024, 09:58:01 AM »
One issue going through multi layers is that the machine itself may have the oomph to do it but the needle is the weak link.  It is quite likely to flex / bend on the way through.  If I've got a challenging thick bit I always use the handwheel to lower the needle, you can usually see if it is starting to bend. 

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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: 2024 Jeans Sew Along
« on: February 12, 2024, 09:45:13 AM »
Looking good @Ouryve .  I think you are going to end with a better fit than the M&S ones which is why it's worth doing it.
I'm sitting here wearing one of my earliest pairs of me made jeans, long consigned to the farming drawer and it's just struck me how comfortable they are to wear.

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Sewing Machines / Re: Update on my sewing machine world. LATEST
« on: February 12, 2024, 07:50:27 AM »
@Bill after you've 'finger bodged'  enough buttons it will be quicker to do them by hand.  I find that with zips.  I always hand sew zips in seams - saves time and they are invisible without any faffing around.

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Your Favourite Suppliers / Re: Patternsy
« on: February 10, 2024, 17:28:49 PM »
...... and postie brought it at lunchtime today  :)

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Your Favourite Suppliers / Re: Patternsy
« on: February 10, 2024, 12:42:17 PM »
Yes, £2 per AO sheet ( I had 2 patterns / 5 sheets total) and £2.67 first class post.  Postage will be increasing when their current stock of stamps runs out.

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Your Favourite Suppliers / Patternsy
« on: February 09, 2024, 21:15:02 PM »
I uploaded 2 patterns for printing and paid.
39 minutes later I received an e mail saying that they had been shipped!

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Sewalongs and Competitions / Re: 2024 Jeans Sew Along
« on: February 06, 2024, 12:17:46 PM »
Quote
apparently it is OK that jeans, khakis and other workwear type trousers for women have the zip the men's way round.
Probably because until recently it was not acknowledged that women actually 'worked' so had to make do with men's stuff.  Even now a lot of workwear manufacturers don't do smaller sizes and most of the best workboots start at size 6.
I'll get off my soap box !

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Overlockers & Coverstitchers / Re: Brother CV3440 coverstitch
« on: February 05, 2024, 08:19:59 AM »
Use wash away wonder tape for turning up hems on jersey.  This gives a nice, stable edge to coverstitch.  I use a t shirt pattern with a curved hem and it works really well.  As described, the tape washes away so you lose the slight stiffness in the hem.

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Sewing Machines / Re: Machine for my Mum
« on: February 02, 2024, 21:42:31 PM »
I use different needles for different fabrics but put them back to re-use them with a mark on the box.  I only put in a new one if starting on a major project.  I don't recall ever throwing one away unless it is damaged.  I did 8 pairs of curtains on the trot without a needle problem.  I've had my overlocker for about 8 years, it gets a lot of use and it still has its original needles.

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